Collar-button.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORESTA W. YOUNG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,307, dated December 18, 1900.

Application filed February 17, 1900. Serial No. 5,572. (No model.)

To 'cl/ZZ whom t may con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, ORES'IA W. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 1383 West Lake street, Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Det-achable Collar-Buttons, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a parthereof, is a full and complete description, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to that kind or class of detachable collar-buttons having separable parts connected togetherl by a spring-catch when in use; and the object of the invention is to obtain a device orconstruction which will be of equal utility and as pleasing in appearance as is the detachable collar-button set out, described, and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 562,060, granted to me June 16, 1896, for detachable collar-buttons, and with less parts or pieces thereto.

To accomplish the 'purposes desired by me, I so construct the base of the collar-button embodying this invention that no i shoe, as it is termed, is required to form a partthereof, while the button and spring-post forming the remaining portion of the collar-button is as easily and securely attached to such base and as readily detached therefrom as in the constructions containing a shoe as an element of the base thereof; and, further, I so construct the spring-post of the detachable collar-button embodying this invention as to avoid splitting the wire forming the same longitudinally for any portion of its length while retaining all the functions of a spring-post formed of a wire divided a portion of its length to constitute the engaging element of the detachable part of the collar-button.

I have illustrated the detachable colla1but- Iton embodying this invention by the drawings hereinbefore referred to, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of such button with the separable parts engaged; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional View of the collar-button with the separable parts in the same relative posi- Ition as in Fig. l; and Fig. 3, an elevation of the spring-post forming an element in the device in 1condition to be permanently joined to the button or head thereof.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several ligures wherever the same appears.

A is the base member or socket of the detachable collar-button embodying this invention, and comprises the button-base ct and the hollow post ct, such hollow post provided with the outwardly-extending bead azand the inwardly-extending bead co3. Base member or socket member A is made of a single piecethat is, the hollow post a is made an integral part of the base a, and the grooves a2 as are made by forcing, as by a die or by spinning, the metalforming the hollow post a' into position forming the bead desired, as, say, into substantially the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. p

Base member or socket member A may be made of gold, silver, or other metal,and when made of metal other than gold may be and preferably is enameled on the part thereof liable to come in contact with the person of the wearer.

B is the spring-post secured to button D. Spring-post B is made of half-round wire bent to bring flatsides b2 b2 and ends b Z9', respectively, adjacent to each other half-round side of the rod forming the periphery of the post.

b4, Fig. 3, indicates the contour-line of the spring-post B, at one end thereof, after the half-round rod of which it is formed has been bent up and before the shoulder b5 is obtained, as by turning it down or cutting away portion b thereof to obtain part 19' tting into the central hole of disk d of head D.

Springpost B is secured in disk CZ by solder or by riveting part 67 down thereon or by both soldering and riveting part bi down thereon, andthe top CZ' of buttonDis secured to disk d by having the peripheral edge d2 thereof turned or pressed in underneath the periphery of such disk.

@3ds are grooves extending around the halfround position of the bent rod forming springpost B and corresponding with the bead a3 of hollow post a.

The operation of the device is: When the spring-post B is forced into hollow post a IOO until the grooves cl3 d3 are adjacent to the inwardly-exfending bead a3, such grooves catch or engage with the bead a3 and the several parts of the button are held together'. Such engagement of the two parts of the device is not so rigid or unyielding but what the button I) and spring-post B may be drawn from` the base member or socket member A and such parts so separated. In use -the hollow post a may be inserted in the buttonholes of the parts or things joined thereby, (as theA be found to be attached to the base member` or socket memberAin a manner well adapted for practical use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In adetaehable collar-button, a base mem-Y Deroonsisting of a base and a hollow post, such hollow post provided with an inwardlyextending annular bead adjacent tothe base, and a button member, such button member consisting of a disk, a head secured on the disk, and a spring-post secured in the disk,

such spring-post comprisingahalf-round wire bent midway thereof and turned down at such bend to obtain a shoulder and an end fitting into a hole in the disk, and provided with a groove at the other end thereof fitting the inwardly-extending annular bead; substantially as described.

ORESTA W. YOUNG.

In presence of- CHARLES TURNER BROWN, FLORA L. BROWN. v 

